Packaging fine, plate works as desired.

Contrary to many critical voices to Amazon packaging of hard drives, this plate was well secured, the original packaging was also packed in foil fixed on a proper fitting cardboard insert which in turn upholstered sitting in the carton.
The disk is working well so far, on pace, it is not me, since it is connected only to a Synology DiskStation as Time Machine disk. So far I had as opposed to Hitachi drives, however, no problems with Samsung HDs.